Crayon-box



'E. 0. LZUNDIN.

CRAYON BOX.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 3. 1920.

Patented Jan. 25, 1921.

' tioning elements,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL O. LUNDIN, OF NEWTON CENTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 STANDARD CRAYON MANUFACTURINGCOMPANY, OF DANVERS, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPO- RATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

CRAYON-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 25, 1921.

Application filed April 3, 1920. Serial No. 870,990.

f! 0 all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL O. LUNDIN, a resident of Newton Center, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Crayon-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved container comprising means for positioning crayons or other elongate articles therein.

In boxing crayons, pencils or the like, it is considered desirable to provide means for positioning the objects relative to each other and to the box. This may be accomplished by means of corrugated elements placed in the box and in using such positioning elements it is highly desirable that they be firmly attached to the box. The elements should be of material sufliciently rigid to maintain their shape, but light so as not to add unduly to the weight of the container. They should be simple and cheap in construction and of inexpensive material.

It is an object of my invention to provide a new and improved box for containing crayons or the like, whereby the crayons are retained in relative position. It is a further object to provide such a container which is light but strong in construction, which is formed of but few and simple parts, and which may be readily constructed by simple machine operations. It is also an object to provide such a container in which the positioning elements are firmly attached to the box without the necessity for additional fastening elements and in which the positioning elements aid in strengthening the box container.

My invention comprises abox of the usual construction formed of any suitable material, and having a plurality of light, posithe ends of the elements being firmly crimped into contact with the sides or ends of the box whereby they are held in position.

These positioning elements maybe simply and cheaply formed from narrow metallic ribbons or similar material and are attached to the box without any additional fastening elements. My improved box is inexpensive to manufacture and efliciently maintains the crayons or similar articles in the desired relative positions.

I have described and claimed the method of making my improved positioning elements, and the apparatus and method of attaching them to the boxes in applications Sr. No. 370,991 and Sr. No. 370,989, respectively, filed on even date herewith, the present application relatingonly to the finished container as an article of manufacture.

I have illustrated one preferred embodiment of my invention in the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure l is a plan view of my improved container; and

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of Fig. l as seen on the line 22.

In the drawings, the box is designated 3 and contains the crayons or like objects 4. As shown there are two metallic positioning elements 5, the ends of which overlap the edge of the box and are crimped thereto at 6. These positioning elements are corrugated ribbons having the lower ridges 7 bearing upon the inside of the bottom of the box and upper ridges 8 separating the articles 4.

The positioning elements are formed from tapes of steel or other material which may be easily corrugated and which has sufficient rigidity to retain the form which is given it. The ends of the positioning elements are positively} pinched or crimped over the sides or ends of the box so that they are firmly connected therewith. This may be done manually by pliers or by a machine which will positively press the metal into engagement with both sides of the upstanding rim of the box, as for example by a machine such as disclosed in my second aforesaid application.

This connection is rigid and fixes the relative positions of the positioning elements and the box. The connection is simple and requires no additional elements and occupies no space in the box. The metal elements aid materially in strengthening the box.

While I have shown the corrugations as of one particular contour it is obvious that they may be varied to fit the articles to be placed in the box. I have shown two posi tioning elements in the container but this number may be varied as desired, depending somewhat on the size of the box and of the articles to be retained. The drawing illustrates a box to contain but six articles but ObifiOtlSlY the bogg mey be of any desired and being erimped sothat eal'eh face of each size. side has a portion of the spacing element in 1 01211111: firm engagement therewlth. 10 A 0011132111161COIIlPllSlllg a box and a spacslgned by me at Boston, 'Massachusetts,

5 ing element-extending across the box, the this first day of April 1920..

ends of the spacing element extending over 7 v the edges of the opposite sides of the box, EMIL O. LUNDIN. 

